Word: skin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fundamentally, he is a brother-under-the-skin to followers, say, of the Brooklyn Dodgers. All he wants is to win. He will not say of a losing coach, 'Trow da bum out,' but he will remark firmly, 'Kindly show the gentleman to the door...
...survivors of Boston's Cocoanut Grove fire in 1942 (492 dead) was a 21-year-old Coast Guardsman, Clifford A. Johnson. Third-degree burns covered 40% of his skin, second-degree burns 15% more. In three months, he was given 100 blood and plasma transfusions, while his weight dropped from 168 to 112 lbs. He got 18 skin grafts, became famous as the first victim of such severe burns to be saved by medical science. Last week, back in his native Midwest, Johnson was driving a truck near Jefferson City, Mo. He missed a turn, and his truck crashed...
...doctors at the U.S. Public Health Service Hospital at Lexington, Ky. have already discovered, Nalline, when injected under the addict's skin, causes immediate withdrawal symptoms. (If given to basically healthy nonaddicts, the drug causes no serious symptoms.) In eight months of testing, Narcotics Inspector Fred Brau-moeller and Dr. James G. Terry, an Alameda County medical officer, also noted that Nalline has a telltale effect on the eyes of people to whom it is administered: while it causes a non-addict's pupils to constrict, it causes the addict's pupils to dilat...
...sheet of paper. Looked at in the large, this is not far from true. The part of the atmosphere that concerns the weather is only some seven miles deep, and it covers the surface of a globe 8,000 miles in diameter. Proportionately, it is much thinner than the skin of an apple...
Assuming that the proposed satellite (21.5 Ibs., 20-in. diameter) reaches a maximum speed of 18,000 m.p.h., Drs. Carl Gazley Jr. and David J. Masson point out that the temperature of its skin should not rise much above 2,000°F. Although most common metals either melt or soften at this temperature, alloys recently developed for the turbine blades of jet engines are capable of withstanding it. So should an alloy-constructed satellite. A returning satellite could not only show the subtle effects of cosmic rays but could also bring back with it pictures of what the earth...